[FRIAM] Sunshine protection act
Steve Smith
sasmyth at swcp.com
Thu Mar 17 19:12:22 EDT 2022
> For those of you who don't get all of your news from XKCD,
> https://xkcd.com/2594
You mean "snooze buttons" are not wired to a system like this? What,
otherwise, is the real point of them?
It certainly seems to be common in popular song titles/lyrics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_the_World
>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 3:03 PM Gillian Densmore
> <gil.densmore at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 5:34 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/15/22 3:29 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
> > Please pass
> >
> https://www.cnet.com/culture/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/
>
> >
> > I had to google that this wasn't early April fools, or that
> I was
> > misreading things.
>
> except they got it backwards? People who *like* getting up
> and going
> to work before the sun comes up should find a job where that is
> rewarded, or at least accepted... there are many. But how
> many folks
> want to walk into work from the parking lot in the dark at 8AM?
>
> I'm a bit of a purist, wanting the sun to be at "high noon" at
> noontime
> and the sunrise and sunset roughly symmetric around that
> moment. It is
> a tiny and ideological thing, so I get it that nobody else cares.
>
> Agreed that noon. 'high noon' is when the sun is at the top of the
> sky.
> And we have. Or at least probably have any number of simple tech
> fixes to get a lot of sunshine through the day for any given
> location. such that noon at *35° 41' 29.5584'' N and 105° 56'
> 39.0588'' W*. For Santa Fe, NM
> means that sensors and some kind of geo-location hack for clocks,
> computers etc know to make adjustments through out the year to
> make sure noon means the sun is pretty close to the top of the sky
> on a y axis for those coordinates.
> lol but I have a feeling words like: probabilities, statistically
> even, Y-axis, optimal, random, and simply give us enough F'n
> sunshine. For the white house would make to many peoples eyes
> glaze over. just getting to have one or the other is a pretty good
> solid step. Dynamic Time adjustments can come along shortly.
> What's kind of funny is Arizona has been quietly sitting around
> going we're working just fine, you don't need to...ok how long is
> this weirdness going to keep going.
> I wonder how many tongs got bitten on to not do a told you so. and
> how many more going to be pretty sore for quite a while if/when it
> passes.
>
> but... whatever... I have very few schedules enforced on me,
> and those
> that are are generally not as arbitrary as the MDT/DST
> differences.
>
> > Now it just needs to get passed the court jester and man who
> looks and
> > sounds like a constipated turtle: Mconnel.
> >
> > Gives me a little hope for UBI and a NHS.
> >
> I'd like to think that a unanimous decision like this might
> help break
> up some of the corrosion in the system keeping it locked up,
> but I think
> the GOP (goofy old party) has too much invested in things that
> the UBI
> and NHS would confront.
>
> LOL I like how you think. And alas, probably right.
>
> I googled how many places don't have a summer or winter clock: a
> lot don't. Is this graph right that Japan noped out of a summer
> and winter clock system?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_country
> so what I'm reading is two clocks is limited to only a few places
> and the rest of the globe is working pretty well with one type of
> clock? coolness!
>
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